It is Strawberry season and I love eating Strawberries a lot. I have just run across some great info on just how good strawberries are as a health food.

Strawberries are one of nature’s healthiest “packages” of power nutrients. There is strong evidence that strawberries are a heart-protective fruit, an anti-cancer fruit, and an anti-inflammatory fruit all rolled into one ripe treat.

A serving of strawberries will provide you with 210 mg of potassium, a mineral that will help regulate the electrolytes in your body, lowering your risk of heart attack and stroke. Strawberries are also high in folate, a key ingredient in the manufacture of red blood cells, and a possible aid in delaying the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.

Strawberries are Packed with Vitamins and Minerals

Rounding out the roster of beneficial vitamins and minerals of note are B2, B5, B6, vitamin K, copper, and magnesium. Strawberries also contain omega fatty acids. All of this goodness is available to you at a cost of 45 calories for about seven medium strawberries. And not only that, but the fiber in strawberries, about 12% of your RDA per serving, helps your body absorb nutrients, inhibits the production of cholesterol in your liver, and helps stabilize your blood glucose.

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Vegetables are a very important part of our diets. I love vegetables, my Jenny Craig dieting wife eats most of the cities broccoli and my kids even like vegetables.

There has been a real run on the healthiness of vegetables lately, first we had an outbreak of ecoli in spinach. Just after, I think a day after spinach was ok to eat there was a problem with lettuce that has since subsided, and now there is an FDA warning of salmonella in tomatoes. This latest warning of salmonella is ok by me just because I really do not like tomatoes but you know what? There are so many good reasons though to eat tomatoes they are a true wonder food.

Tomatoes have been shown to be good for your prostate and have been shown in research to reduce the chance of prostate cancer
Lycopene may also help seniors to remain active and lycopene is contained in tomatoes
Vitamin K, found in tomatoes is good for your bones.
Tomatoes are also a great source of vitamin C and contains other antioxidants as well
Some studies show that tomatoes are good for preventing an helping cataracts

Enough good reasons for me to eat tomatoes. Lets hope that the salmonella ban is a short one.